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    Perhaps Mike Prusi Should Resign


    By Rougman, Section News
    Posted on Fri Mar 26, 2010 at 10:28:13 AM EST
    Tags: State Budget, Mike Prusi (all tags)

    "Maybe you can look (state employees) in the eye and tell them their jobs aren't worth what we negotiated, but I can't do that," said Sen. Michael Prusi, the Senate's top-ranked Democrat.

    Well, maybe he shouldn't be in the Michigan State Senate.

    Maybe Mike didn't take economics while he was at Lansing Community College. If he had, perhaps he would have learned that a gaggle of people in expensive suits cannot arbitrarily decide what something is worth.

    Maybe he skipped government class in high school. Looking state employees in the eye is part of Mike's job. Making decisions that affect millions of people is what politicians do. He should have been aware of that before he ever ran for office. (If nothing else, maybe they should have covered that at freshman senator orientation.)

    Businesses cut back when they fear going belly up. That is also what taxpayers do when they can no longer live by a previous budget. Why can't Mike Prusi do so? Is the allure to unwisely spend other people's money too irresistible to withstand?

    Perhaps this helps to explain why voters should never elect a union local president into public office. He is in Lansing supposedly representing the taxpayers, but he is there instead representing the union.

    He sits his butt in high office in a state with over 14 percent unemployment, plummeting property values and tax receipts, declining residents, and facing a potential $1.7 billion deficit, and he is still unable to cut whatever costs he can.

    He solemnly says he cannot do it. Perhaps it is time for a man who admits he is incapable of doing his job, to go home.

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    The time has come (none / 0) (#2)
    by LookingforReagan on Fri Mar 26, 2010 at 12:03:32 PM EST
    To remove labor unions from the public sector. They are a wedge between the folks (taxpayers) and those that our tax dollars pay to serve us. As government employees they should not have the right to organize or be members of labor unions. Union activity has been the largest single cause of the massive increase of the size of government at all levels. The Progressives us the creation of new union jobs to pay off the labor leaders for support. Nothing secret about that. But as the number of state employees has grown under the Czarina the service has gotten worse year after year. We need to circulate petitions and get a something on the ballot for 2012. An amendment that would prohibit any public employee whose salary is paid from tax payer dollars from being a member of a labor union. Private companies that are contracted by the state to perform work or provide services would be excluded. But this has got to stop. When a state or government job is paying more per hour then a comparable job in the private sector something is very wrong. As a result of increased benifits and salary increases our taxes go up which in turn shrinks the jobs that are available in the private sector. We need to do this. We can do this.

    Not fast enough (none / 0) (#3)
    by sailingconservatively on Fri Mar 26, 2010 at 12:46:08 PM EST
    for the sake of the state.   Posturing is still the national pastime and most of the legislature has become quite skilled at this.   I agree, the gavel must come down, and soon.

    Agree totally. (none / 0) (#4)
    by RushLake on Sat Mar 27, 2010 at 06:30:11 AM EST
    One of the problems that continually arises is that everybody knows somebody who is a nice person and belongs to a union, and that nice person "just couldn't make it without those union wages and benefits".

    By the way, where is the Michigan Extortion Association getting the money to run those radio ads whining about "politicians in Lansing" balancing the budget on their noble backs?

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